The emergence of a new phylogeny of ray-finned fishes at the turn of the twenty-first century
marked a paradigm shift in understanding the evolutionary history of half of living …

Ecological release, originally conceived as niche expansion following a reduction in
interspecific competition, may prompt invasion success, morphological evolution, speciation …

Spiny-rayed fishes (Acanthomorpha) dominate modern marine habitats and account for
more than a quarter of all living vertebrate species. Previous time-calibrated phylogenies …

Colonization of novel habitats can result in marked phenotypic responses to the new
environment that include changes in body shape and opportunities for further morphological …

Evolutionary innovations are scattered throughout the tree of life, and have allowed the
organisms that possess them to occupy novel adaptive zones. While the impacts of these …

Teleost fishes comprise one-half of all vertebrate species and possess a duplicated
genome. This whole-genome duplication (WGD) occurred on the teleost stem lineage in an …

We present a dataset that quantifies body shape in three dimensions across the teleost
phylogeny. Built by a team of researchers measuring easy-to-identify, functionally relevant …

Repeatable, convergent outcomes are prima facie evidence for determinism in evolutionary
processes. Among fishes, well-known examples include microevolutionary habitat …

The charismatic trumpetfishes, goatfishes, dragonets, flying gurnards, seahorses, and
pipefishes encompass a recently defined yet extraordinarily diverse clade of percomorph …

The Clupeiformes, including among others herrings, anchovies, shads and menhadens are
ecologically and commercially important, yet their phylogenetic relationships are still …